Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer that starts in the lymphocytes in the bone marrow and is characterized as a mature B-cell malignancy. It tends to progress slowly over many years and mainly affects older adults. In CLL, the bone marrow produces too many white blood cells which are not fully developed and therefore do not function properly. Typically, there are no early symptoms, but over time this causes problems such as increased infection risk, swollen lymph nodes, fever, or fatigue. CLL accounts for about 25% of all leukemia cases (Mukkamalla SKR et al. (2024)).

Differential abundance and machine learning analysis

This section presents the disease-specific results of the differential abundance and machine learning analyses. The analyses are reported for three comparisons: 1) disease vs. all other diseases, 2) disease vs. diseases from the same class, and 3) disease vs. healthy samples.

Disease vs All other
Disease vs Class
Disease vs Healthy